Snail Mail Preservation Art

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In an effort to preserve Snail Mail via the postal service, we can send a postcard with a message/ artwork visible on one side of the postcard that can be seen both by the postal worker and the recipient of the card.You can send a postcard to anyone OR someone who is in this group. The goal being to support the postal service as well as to enliven recipients' and postal workers' day. cheryl h

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How can we save Snail Mail when postage is so high and keep going up yearly? 2 Replies

Here in the Britain we pay minimum £ 2.20 ( 2.83 US dollars - 2.54 Euros) for a letter up to 100 grams and the same even for a naked postcard. It goes up every year since our Government sold the…Continue

Tags: of, mailing, cost, UK, Mail

Started by Mail Art Martha. Last reply by Carien van Hest Jul 23, 2023.

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Comment by Mail Art Martha on December 15, 2023 at 3:31pm: Our postal services are being fined for failing in its duty of delivering to every address in the British Isles. They are deliberately running the letter post down!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 29, 2023 at 7:34am

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 29, 2023 at 7:34am: Snail Mail! That is how sloooow it goes to the USA, and expensive postage too!

With Vizma, we discovered a little shop down a side street in Athens that makes rubber stamps...and bought a "snail"! will add it to envelopes along with the stencil snail that Heleen once sent me...

move along the mail art...slow snail mail :-)

Comment by Lulu Flanagan on September 26, 2023 at 7:35pm: Hello all,

Just joined this last week of September. I’ve been taking a vacation from mail art but need to send out some Snail Mail art post cards! So glad to be here after a long summer in dry hot northern Minnesota!

Look soon at your mail address for some snail mail from me!

Lulu

Comment by Afritha Hasana on August 19, 2023 at 7:30pm: Hie all how are you logging in to my account after 3 years nice to be back here after a long break

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on March 5, 2015 at 12:14am: Received your great Snail Mail Snail, thank you very much, Cheryl!

I posted it on my 'real weird animals' mail art blog. Your message is clear! (and I hope, my message is, too :-) )

Comment by Roberto Bergamo on February 24, 2015 at 8:45am: HI :)

Comment by Denise Woodward on February 22, 2015 at 9:43pm: Thank you Cheryl for your great post card! "bravo aux facteurs" It made my day!

Comment by Judy Staroscik on November 18, 2014 at 10:29pm: I'm in!!!!

Comment by jazzie on May 1, 2014 at 5:06pm

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